A website that lists the victims of Righthaven LLC 'shakedown' lawsuits that are causing irreparable harm to bloggers and advocacy websites.

Righthaven LLC -- a bottom feeding legal outfit -- has teamed up with the Las Vegas Review-Journal and Denver Post to sue mom and pop websites, advocacy and public interest groups and forum board operators for copyright infringement. The strategy of Righthaven is to sue thousands of these website owners, who are primarily unfunded and will be forced to settle out of court.

To date Righthaven has been ordered to pay $323,138 in legal fees and sanctions.

05/13/11
In late April, defendant Michael Leon's case was dismissed without prejudice by the Honorable Judge Gloria M. Navarro. The defendant was also allowed to seek attorney's fees. Attorneys who represented Leon on a pro bono basis in the April 20 hearing, Randazza Legal Group and J. Malcome DeVoy, later filed a motion asking for attorney's fees against Righthaven LLC because negotiating with Righthaven on the matter had proven fruitless.

3 comments:

Randazza is a copyright troll himself. Look at the file-sharing suit he filed against an individual on behalf of notorious troll D Gill Sperlein of San Francisco (in-house lawyer of gay porn studio IO Group): http://ia600403.us.archive.org/31/items/gov.uscourts.flsd.378393/gov.uscourts.flsd.378393.1.0.pdf.

This is the first suit of this kind against an individual, and therefore very important: trolls randomly picked a little guy to scare everyone from fighting back.

Prior to that they subpoenaed contact info based on IP addresses and used this information to coerce settlements.

Read more at http://www.scribd.com/doc/55048420/310-Cv-03647-WHA-Docket-38-Motion-to-Dismissabout the troll Sperlein and his tactics.

While you are free to snipe from the comfort of your pseudonym, good lawyers both defend and prosecute copyright infringement cases. In the "sham copyright assignment" Righthaven lawsuits, Randazza has been instrumental -- and continues to play an instrumental role -- in the outcome of this saga. Randazza has also defended Righthaven victims on a pro bono basis. Perhaps you have not seen the beautifully crafted Amicus Brief written on behalf of the Media Bloggers Association and defendant Bill Hyatt? Nor have you reviewed Randazza's track record when defending Righthaven victims? Given his many priorities right now, I doubt Randazza has time to respond to your cowardly remarks. But I do. You seem to have a problem with him taking a Torrent case, which is very different from a Righthaven case. Righthaven sues people who are engaged in Fair Use. A Torrent case hardly touches Fair Use. You seem more like a thief who is angry that he got caught. Your comment comes off as petty (and brutish) as does your website.